The boundary of 2D and 3D is becoming vague in Japan

I wrote it before about drawing technology "Live 2D"

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2D or not 2D, that is no problem

However, a cooler technique appeared. This is "E-mote".


The boob shakes! :D

E-mote have a lot of template. Creator can get an effect of pseudo 3D by letting these templates apply to 2D character. We can use tese ver. of "E-mote Lite" free on 30 days. The license version is 300,000 yen(about 3231USD) a 1year. The custom of the character itself is 700,000 yen - 1 million yen. I think that we can apply this in smartphones apps.

The combination of T-shirt and AR is really cool!

Cospa is Japanese representative CosPlay fashion brand. They sell various CosPlay clothes and tie-up fashion items. In them, this T-shirts is very cool!

This is a tie-up T-shirt of popular novel/anime Accel World. Back print becomes AR marker, and the feather of the butterfly appears when we watch it using AR app Yousei for smartphones "Yousei Megane".

The another version is this.

Feathers are 3DCG, so we can watch them from all angles and take photo. These prices are 3,200 yen.

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http://www.cospa.com/detail/id/00000049477
http://www.cospa.com/detail/id/00000049475

Snack of popular game apps for smartphones "Nameko Saibai Kit"

Yesterday, I bought Nameko snack. However, this is not a nameko mushroom flavor snack. This is a snack about the game apps for smartphones "Nameko Saibai Kit" series.

KAWAII! Japan overflows with Nameko goods now. It spreads to a sweets.

The snack is chocolate flavor and shape is Nameko. According to the official site of Nameko, snack food company Tohato tested many times to make this shape and had a hard time.

Furthermore, there is suppulementg of the sticker in the snack. This is very durable and can put it on mobile, tablet and laptop.

May be only in Japan: Fusion of porn and social game

"Eroge" where por and a game fused is in Japan. It is the erotic game that only adults can play. It came for a social game.

DMM started pre-user's registration acceptance of new mobile social game "NOZOKIANA". The motif of this is a popular e-book. Users look in various girls from the peephole on the wall. Users can collect the figure of various girls. The voice of the voice actor sticks to the girl characters. Now, the social game with the voice is popular in Japan.

Social game platform moeG(Moe Game) specialized in porno started pre-user's registration acceptance of new mobile social game "Priget Plus". This is a general J-style card social game. However, all the cards are girls. Users collect various girls and train them. They are improved for training, and the area of their clothes decreases.

Both are released in the end of this month. Of course only adults can play neither.

LINE occupies Japan: LINE's mobile virtual world "LINE Play" got 2M users

NHN Japan's messaging apps LINE is occupying Japan. Mobile virtual world LINE Play got 2 million users in about two months.

LINE Play is the 2D virtual world like Ameba Pigg and iOS ver. and Android ver. are released.

LINE Play pre-opened on November 20, and grand opened on December 18.  They already got 1 million users during the period. And they got 2 million users on January 30, 2013. This is the most shorthand notes in the Japanese virtual world.

The pace of Ameba Pigg -the virtual world that has most users in Japan- was like this...


February, 2009 - Open
April, 2009 - 100,000 users breakthroughs
July, 2009 - 500,000 users breakthroughs
October, 2009 - 1,400,000 users breakthroughs
January, 2010 - 2 million users breakthroughs
...

Now, Ameba Pigg has about 14 million users. However, it took 11 months until 2 million users breakthrough. Does LINE Play win Ameba Pigg?